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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

I just listened to an outstanding webcast on the future of selling, conducted by four close friends. I am a student of their work, they are among the smartest thinkers about selling I’ve ever met. It seemed, unconsciously, the conversation around selling gravitates to SaaS selling.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling. My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. While we may be hitting our revenue goals, our costs of selling are skyrocketing.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.).

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Why I’m So Optimistic About The Future Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

At the end, Brent Adamson pulled me to the side asking, “Dave, you seem to have a pretty dark outlook about selling, what’s up?” Am I contributing to it’s improvement and the ability of sales to contribute to our customers and the companies we sell for?” The mindless focus on volume/velocity.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

Many think this is being driven by technology, AI/ML. We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. We chop up work, creating assembly lines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt.

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On Layoffs….

Partners in Excellence

In the past year, we’ve seen 100’s of thousands of layoffs, particularly in technology segments. For years, I’ve been writing about the mechanization of selling. Customers have become depersonalized widgets that we move along our selling assembly lines.

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In a Supply Chain Crisis, Selling Parts Online May Be Your Next Move

Salesforce

Any disruption to an assembly line or a delivery fleet can bring operations to a standstill, putting pressure on manufacturers to fix the issue as soon as possible. Watch this video, featuring Salesforce’s Andy Peebler, to learn how manufacturers can benefit from creating a parts business: Why sell parts online?